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Student Voices

Terriers Offer Advice to Boston’s New “Nightlife Czar”

April 19, 2023

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Terriers in Charge

Terriers in Charge: Brianna Bourne (CAS’24)

March 24, 2023

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Voices & Opinion

What Did You Miss Most in the Weird Winter? Snow Days, Warm Foods, Complaining, Fires, Winter Runs, and More

March 17, 2023

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Listen Now

Today I Learned: The Smell of Formaldehyde Makes You Hungry

February 28, 2023

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Health

Q&A: BU Deaf Student on the Impact of Over-the-Counter Hearing Aids

January 13, 2023

Graduate Students

BU Graduate Students Vote to Unionize in Lopsided Approval

December 13, 2022

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Watch Now

Video: Terriers React to Data Science Building Design

December 7, 2022

Myles Standish Hall at Boston University

Voices & Opinion

POV: Rename Myles Standish Hall—“A Symbol of Continued Oppression”

November 28, 2022

Together Estranged's Seth Forbes (left) and SARP's Mae Petti pose for a photo on November 7, 2022. The non-profit group provides free support services to adults estranged from family membersPhoto by Jackie Ricciardi for Boston University

Mental Health

A New Support Group for Terriers Estranged from Their Families

November 14, 2022

Photo: Teresa Miguel sits and poses for the camera in front of a large water fountain. A Hispanic young woman wearing a long grey maxi dress smiles for the camera.

First-Gen VOICES

POV: My First-Gen Story: In Search of a “Better Future, a Better Life”

November 7, 2022

Photo: People hold signs and chant slogans during a protest over the death of Iranian Mahsa Amini outside the Iranian Consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, on September 26, 2022. A group of women, most not wearing hijabs, hold signs supporting Amini and protesting her death.

Student Voices

Anger, Pride, Fear: BU’s Iranian Students React to Mahsa Amini’s Death

September 28, 2022

Student Voices

Advice for First-year Students on Navigating the College Experience

September 12, 2022

Photo of Dhruv Kapadia giving a speech at BU's 2022 Matriculation. A young South Asian man wearing red robes stands at a podium in front of a stage decorated in black curtains and with a large BU insignia hanging behind him. Blurry students are seen in the crowd in front of him, as other robed officials sit on stage to his left.

Student Voices

POV: Student Government Can Be a Radical Force for Change

September 9, 2022

Photo of Isabelle Yap (Sargent'23) , (left), and Genesis Veiassa (Sargent'24) standing on a dock along the Charles River. The Harvard Bridge is seen behind them in the distance; the water and sky are blue with puffy clouds. Yap is a young Black woman with her dark hair pulled back. She has a backpack slung on one shoulder and wears a yellow top and black spandex. Veiassa is a white Woman with long red hair pulled back into french braids, she wears a black t-shirt and gray shorts. Both smile, wear orange, black and gray life jackets, and hold canoeing paddles across their chests.

Things-to-do

Video: Canoeing on the Charles

September 9, 2022

Photo of Boston Mayor Michelle Wu (third from left) with five of this year’s BU City Scholars Summer Fellows: Willa Nessoff (CAS'24) (from left), Nancy Wang (Questrom'24), Connie Situ (CAS'23), Shirli Marini (Questrom'24), and Stella Dzialas (CAS'24). Wu is a middle-aged AAPI woman with shoulder length black hair who wears a black dress. Nessoff, a White woman, wears a black shirt and flowy tan pants, has wavy reddish hair. Wang is an AAPI woman with shoulder-length black hair who wears a black v-neck and a floral skirt. Situ is a woman of color with long brown and blonde ombre hair who wears a black long sleeve shirt and a black and white plaid shirt. Marini is a light-skinned woman with short strawberry blonde hair who wears a white sweater and black and white speckled pants. Dzialas, a White woman, wears a knee-length black dress and has short, wavy dirty blonde hair. They pose in front of a cement wall.

Government

Terriers Get an Up-Close Look at a New Administration at Work

September 8, 2022

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Student Voices

Working the Pacific Northwest Trail

August 31, 2022

Composite of three images of Sujena Soumyanath wearing three different outfits. Soumyanath is a young woman of color with long, dark, straight hair. At left, she wears a white tank top, wide-brim baseball hat, light jeans and a chunky belt on a sidewalk near some industrial looking pipes. At center, she wears a colorful tube top, ripped wide leg jeans, and stands with her hands in her belt loops in front of a graffitied wall. At right, she wears a brown sweatshirt, black mini skirt, and brown, nearly knee-high boots. She wears dark round sunglasses and poses on a street corner.

Accolades

Society of Professional Journalists Honors Daily Free Press Writer for Fashion Column

July 27, 2022

Photo of the drug misoprostol sitting on a gynecological table at Casa Fusa, a health center in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Friday, Jan. 22, 2021. A blue and white box reads: "MISOP 200: Misoprostol 200g" and an orange package with 4 pills is seen in front.

Voices & Opinion

POV: Why We Can’t Rely on Abortion Pills to Offset Closure of Abortion Clinics

July 22, 2022

Photo of a large crowd of women holding signs protesting the SCOTUS Roe v. Wade decision at the intersection of Tremont Street and Boylston Street in Boston during the rally.

Voices & Opinion

POV: How the End of Roe v. Wade Will Impact My Life

July 19, 2022

Sen. Claiborne Pell, D-R.I., chairman of Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee, gestures during the subcommittee's hearings on Wednesday, July, 26, 1972 in Washington. (AP Photo/ Harvey Georges)

Student Voices

Pell Grant 50th Anniversary: Two BU Students Share How It Changed Their Lives

June 16, 2022

Pell Grant 50th Anniversary: Two BU Students Share How It Changed Their Lives